Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow

Jeremy Blonde JeremyBlonde at grant.k12.ca.us
Thu Apr 19 16:18:06 IST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Denis Beauchemin
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:04 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow
> 
> Jeff A. Earickson a écrit :
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Dörfler Andreas wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:35:12 +0200
> >> From: Dörfler Andreas <Andreas.Doerfler at kempten.de>
> >> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion 
> <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> Subject: RE: Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I see the same thing on 3 servers. I might revert back to 
> 0.90.1... or
> >>> hope that a fix is released soon. I'm using Dag Wieers 
> repository for
> >>> clamav.
> >>>
> >>>       Jens
> >>
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> dont know if this is an good idea
> >>
> >>> **Important note**: on April 16th CHM, CAB and PDF 
> handlers will be
> >>> disabled for 0.90 and 0.90.1 users through the dynamic engine
> >>> configuration module (DCONF). Please upgrade to 0.90.2 
> immediately.
> >>
> >>
> >> quick check on my system shows me no problems but i run a self 
> >> compiled version
> >
> > I've been running 0.90.2 since last Friday on Solaris 10, 
> with no change
> > in performance over 0.90.1.  Self compiled version...
> >
> > Jeff Earickson
> > Colby College
> I've been running 0.90.2 (self-compiled with Julian's Install-Clam-SA 
> script) since Tuesday on RHEL4 servers and didn't see a 
> performance hit 
> either.  My servers are running clamavmodule 
> (Mail-ClamAV-0.20.tar.gz) 
> which I had to recompile after installing 0.90.2.
> 
> Denis
> 
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> 

I've been running 0.90.2 since yesterday under Gentoo Linux and I'm seeing a huge performance impact.  I usually have only a couple of messages in the hold queue but I'm now seeing an average of 30 msgs waiting.  I also see clamscan taking a long time when viewed with top.  I guess I'll be going back to 0.90.1 until the issue is resolved.

BTW, since it's Gentoo, clamav is complied from source.

Jeremy Blonde
Instructional Technology - Server Support
Grant Joint Union High School District


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